Op - Eds - old | Center for Health Transformation

March

March 19, 2010
Bill Is Too Flawed and Too Unpopular
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March 18, 2010
Will the Democrats "Self Execute" on Healthcare Reform?
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March 10, 2010
Kill the Bill
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March 3, 2010
What Is "Reconciliation" And Why Is It A Threat?
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February

February 25, 2010
President Obama -- Still Not Listening
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February 24, 2010
Your Seat At The Table
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February 24, 2010
Modern Technology Is Critical As We Aim to Improve Health Care
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February 23, 2010
Wasteful Diagnostics Making Healthcare Unaffordable
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February 23, 2010
It's the Money That Matters Most In Health Care Debate
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February 22, 2010
Power to the People In the Health Care Debate
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February 18, 2010
Newt Gingrich: It's Time to Team Up
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February 9, 2010
Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama
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February 1, 2010
Health-care Reform Must Put Patient First
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January

January 21, 2010
Open Doors to Healthcare Debate
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January 13, 2010
What's Going on in Massachusetts?
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January 6, 2010
Harry Reid's Corrupt Christmas Present
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January 4, 2010
A Vision for Prosperity: Restoring Realism and Responsibility
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December

December 14, 2009
Medicare Early Buy-In
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December 9, 2009
Democrats Commit Political Suicide -- In Three Steps
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December 4, 2009
Redistributing Wealth Through Health "Reform"
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November

November 24, 2009
Government Panel Can't Put Price on Human Life
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November 9, 2009
How Much Fraud?
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November 6, 2009
Let States Lead the Way - Washington's One-Size-Fits-All Reform Won't Work
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October

October 28, 2009
Saying 'No' to Your Right to Know
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October 28, 2009
Gingrich and Desmond: Plan Will Bankrupt States
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October 21, 2009
Civil Justice Reform Still Has a Place
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October 14, 2009
Know the Facts, Read the Bill, Vote
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October 7, 2009
FDA Snubbed in Stimulus
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October 5, 2009
Costly Health Care Reform Harmful Rx for Innovation
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October 2, 2009
Do the Math on Healthcare Reform
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October 1, 2009
If You Like Your Coverage, You Can't Keep It
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September

September 30, 2009
Dishonesty, Intimidation, Hypocrisy and Medicare Advantage
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September 25, 2009
Forum: Health Reform Going Far Beyond Core Issues
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September 23, 2009
States' Results Prove the Benefits of Malpractice Reform
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September 21, 2009
A Growth Vision for Health Reform
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September 20, 2009
Forget Alzheimer's Funding, Forget Everything
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September 19, 2009
Verdict Already in on Medical Liability Reform
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September 17, 2009
Reassembling Humpty Dumpty
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September 17, 2009
Eliminate Fraud First in Health Reform
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September 11, 2009
Three Ways for Obama to Prove Bipartisanship
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September 11, 2009
The Mother of All Slush Funds
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September 11, 2009
Newt Gingrich: Prove it, Mr. President
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September 10, 2009
More Government Health Care Would Hurt Doctors
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September 4, 2009
Newt Gingrich: We Get Last Word on Healthcare Reform
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September 3, 2009
Selling Out Doctors to Pay Off Trial Lawyers
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August

August 29, 2009
Home Care Patients Could See Aid Cut
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August 27, 2009
Facta, Non Verba: Three Reasons Why Government Can't Run Health Care
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August 26, 2009
Three Reasons Why Government Can't Run Health Care
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August 25, 2009
Newt Gingrich: Competition, not rationing, is cure
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August 21, 2009
Sopranos-Style Tactics in Healthcare
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August 19, 2009
Concerns About Rationing in Congressional Health Care Bills Are Not Misplaced
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August 16, 2009
Healthcare Rationing: Real Scary
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August 13, 2009
Reject White House effort to squelch health debate
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August 12, 2009
Trust the Government
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August 5, 2009
Listen to Barney Frank or Listen to America? President Obama's Big Choice
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August 5, 2009
Healthcare fix must encompass litigation reform
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August 4, 2009
Government "Hellthcare" Reform
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July

July 31, 2009
A lot of bark, but not much bite to Blue Dogs' health reform deal
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July 24, 2009
Powerful Congress member does little to stop fraud in health care
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July 22, 2009
The Press Conference President Obama Could Give
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July 2, 2009
Across the Country, Some Systems Are Getting It Right
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July 1, 2009
The Trojan Horse That's Killing Healthcare Reform
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June

June 18, 2009
Government-run healthcare plan a bad idea
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June 11, 2009
On public plan, it's provider beware
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June 8, 2009
Gingrich and Frogue: Congress Must Eliminate Fraud
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May

May 29, 2009
Pay Now or Pay Later
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May 27, 2009
Coming this Summer: Health Care Wars
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May 11, 2009
Possibly a Good Starting Point But . . .
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May 10, 2009
Health care's solutions: A guide to fix the American system
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April

April 29, 2009
100 Days of Devastatingly Swift Success
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April 23, 2009
Can Public Health Insurance Fix Health care? Two views
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April 7, 2009
Toward a healthier economy: Lawsuit reform for Pa.'s medical, fiscal well-being
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March

March 21, 2009
How to heal health care: Open up market solutions to expand choices, cut costs
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March 15, 2009
Obama's Attack on Medical Civil Liberties and Moral Rights
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February

February 9, 2009
Another Medicaid Bailout
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January

January 30, 2009
The Market Can Fix the Healthcare Problem
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January 16, 2009
Be Like Ike as a Healer: Four Healthcare Lessons
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December

December 7, 2008
Which is More Important, Your Doctor or a Personal Injury Lawyer?
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November

November 2, 2008
ALABAMA VOICES: Curing our system
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October

October 28, 2008
Next President Must Put Health in Health Care
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October 24, 2008
How to Take American Health Care From Worst to First
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September

September 29, 2008
Modernizing Healthcare with President Obama or President McCain
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August

August 1, 2008
Taking Healthcare High-Tech Deserves Broad Support
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April

April 27, 2008
Gov. Tim Pawlenty: Health-care records lag technology - Going electronic improves care and saves money, as Minnesota examples show.
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April 9, 2008
Judicial Two Step
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March

March 27, 2008
Transforming Health in Georgia: Giving Georgians More Choices of Higher Quality at Lower Cost
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and CEO Nancy Desmond, responding to a recent AJC column, encourage Georgia Legislature to provide more choices in health
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February

February 21, 2008
Insurance for the working poor: Practical proposals are a powerful step in the right direction
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February 6, 2008
Florida Medicaid reform under siege
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January

January 29, 2008
Overrule Your Budget Office, Mr. President
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January 25, 2008
Solutions for Georgia's 1.7 million uninsured
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December

December 14, 2007
Why the Presidential Candidates Should Address Long-Term Care
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December 3, 2007
Reforming America's Long-Term Care System
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November

November 27, 2007
Ten Key Steps to Fundamental Transformation of the Bureaucracy
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November 16, 2007
Saving Lives and Saving Money with Electronic Prescribing
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October

October 18, 2007
Jindal's health care plan a national model
CHT founder Newt Gingrich discusses Congressman Bobby Jindal's healthcare reform plan.
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October 15, 2007
One Cheer for Doctor Hillary: Right Problems, Wrong Solutions
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt comment on the major components of Senator Hillary Clinton's health-reform plan.
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October 15, 2007
Conservatives and Medicaid
CHT project director Jim Frogue discusses conservatives' role in Medicaid transformation.
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September

September 22, 2007
The Future of SCHIP
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt stress the importance for an 18-month extension of the SCHIP program.
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August

August 11, 2007
Healthy Americans Mean A Healthy America
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Republican Presidential Candidate and Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee discuss the difference between a Washington-controlled bureaucratic model and a consumer-based system.
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August 1, 2007
Health Bill Contains 'Hidden Tax Increase'
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt discuss how the House SCHIP bill will raise taxes on every senior citizen and every American who owns health insurance.
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June

June 25, 2007
Covering the uninsured - do we want markets or mandates?
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich discusses consumer-driven solutions for insuring 45 million Americans.
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June 24, 2007
Budget cuts to medical research will cost lives
In an original op-ed, Newt Gingrich and G. Steven Burrill make the case for increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.
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June 21, 2007
E-prescribing: The Race Is On
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June 13, 2007
Tackling costs of health care requires some huge changes
In The Des Moines Register, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt discuss how to extend coverage to 45 million uninsured Americans.
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May

May 20, 2007
100 percent e-prescribing will save lives
In an original op-ed, CHT Project Director Jim Frogue and Alabama Policy Institute Vice President Michael Ciamarra discuss e-prescribing.
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May 6, 2007
'E-prescribing' can stop errors
In an original op-ed, CHT Project Director Jim Frogue and Alabama Policy Institute Vice President Michael Ciamarra propose a race to see which state can be the first to arrive at 100 percent e-prescribing.
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April

April 10, 2007
Protecting Americans from Genetic Discrimination
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director Robert Egge write a new op-ed for The Washington Times: "Healthcare Re-Gifting."
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April 1, 2007
Preparing for a Twenty-First Century Intelligent Health System
In a new op-ed published in James Magazine, Newt Gingrich and Nancy Desmond recommend essential steps healthcare organizations must take in order to transform America's broken health system.
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March

March 31, 2007
The Health Tech Revolution is Here
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich writes an op-ed for the new issue of The American.
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March 11, 2007
Web-based prescriptions would reduce errors, death
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Health IT Project Director David Merritt write an op-ed for The News Tribune.
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February

February 26, 2007
Rebuilding Healthcare the Right Way
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt write an op-ed about transforming Louisiana's health system.
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January

January 31, 2007
"Four Cornerstones" Will Transform Health
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and GE's Dr. Bob Galvin consider the building blocks of a value-based health system: information technology, performance measures, transparency and payment reform.
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January 25, 2007
Price Shopping Can Lower Healthcare Costs
In an original CHT op-ed, Project Directors Laura Linn and Wayne Oliver discuss Georgia's efforts to increase transparency in the healthcare industry.
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January 9, 2007
Getting the healthcare field wired
In this award-winning Op-Ed, CHT founder Newt Gingrich and Janet Dillione encourage the adoption of health information technology.
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December

December 11, 2006
Alzheimer's Disease: It's Time We Aim for Victory
In an op-ed for BusinessWeek, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director Robert Egge call for a guiding federal resolve to defeat Alzheimer's.
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December 5, 2006
A Remedy for Healthcare
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt call on the lame-duck Congress to pass vital health IT legislation.
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December 4, 2006
Renew Milton Friedman's Conservatism
Newt Gingrich and David Merritt assert that in healthcare and in education, the solution is the same.
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November

November 8, 2006
The Left Playing Medi-scare, Again
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt respond to a flawed study from Families USA in a new CHT opinion-editorial.
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October

October 3, 2006
Trust American Ingenuity to Fix Our Troubling Healthcare Issues
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich writes an op-ed for Investor's Business Daily.
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August

August 22, 2006
A Test of Will: Border Security and Healthcares
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt call on legislators to address the issue of illegal immigration.
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July

July 31, 2006
Transforming Diabetes in Georgia
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Georgia Project Director Laura Linn describe the vision and scope of CHT's Healthy Georgia Diabetes and Obesity Project.
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July 31, 2006
The Last, Best Hope for Healthcare
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt call on American business to act decisively to transform the health system.
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June

June 1, 2006
21st Century Healthcare Consumerism
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director James Frogue provide the "Perspective" feature for the June issue of CDHC Solutions.
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May

May 4, 2006
Prodigal State: Tort reform brings doctors back to Texas
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May 1, 2006
The 21st Century Intelligent Health System
Project Director David Merritt elucidates upon CHT's vision of the future of healthcare in MD Net Guide.
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May 1, 2006
Competition Leading to Lower Cost
CHT senior fellow Ron Bachman offers commentary for Health Care News: "Medicare Rx Costs Below Estimates, Thanks to Private-Sector Competition."
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March

March 30, 2006
A Healthy Medicare Drug Plan
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director David Merritt write an op-ed on Medicare transformation for The Boston Globe.
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March 8, 2006
Sticker Shock Could Help with Healthcare Costs
CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director James Frogue call for quality and price transparency in the health system.
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November

November 12, 2005
A Health Threat We're Not Treating
CHT founder Newt Gingrich discusses specialty hospitals in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
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July

July 18, 2005
Mired in the Past
In an op-ed for Modern Healthcare, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director Jim Frogue argue that Medicare and Medicaid must evolve to meet the needs of the 21st Century.
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June

June 3, 2005
Rx for America: A Healthy Dose of Information Technology
Newt Gingrich and David Merritt write an editorial for The Forward regarding the urgent need for widespread adoption of interoperable health IT.
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May

May 23, 2005
Stark, Anti-Kickback and the EHR
In HHN's Most Wired magazine, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and CEO Nancy Desmond illustrate how regulatory barriers prohibit willing health providers from adopting HIT.
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April

April 7, 2005
Revamp Medicaid to help minorities fare better
In an Atlanta-Journal Constitution guest column, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and Project Director Jim Frogue discuss how minorities' disproportionate representation in the archaic Medicaid bureaucracy exacerbates health disparities between races.
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March

March 2, 2005
"Transform It, Don't Reform It"
In a Washington Post Op-Ed, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich discusses bringing Medicaid into the 21st Century: a fundamental transformation of the program is vital if Medicaid is to satisfy the separate and distinct needs of the several groups it covers.
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February

February 14, 2005
Better Healthcare for the 21st Century
In Health Care's Most Wired magazine, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich and CEO Nancy Desmond urge community leaders to bring new information technology to the forefront of the health care transformation process.
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